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Several feared dead as plane crashes in South Sudan

March 21, 2017

A passenger plane has crashed at the airport in the town of Wau, northern South Sudan, on 20 March. There were at least 44 people on board. It is not clear whether any of the passenger or the crew member died in the crash. Local radio station Eye Radio Juba said some of the passengers were feared dead. Footballer devoured by giant crocodile as he jogged beside Zambezi river” data-reactid=”16″>Trending: Footballer devoured by giant crocodile as he jogged beside Zambezi river However, an aid worker told Reuters: “No one died but there are a number of injured people right now.” Witnesses said the plane – believed to belong to the South Supreme airline – was blowing smoke and caught fire as soon as it touched the ground. FBI’s Comey confirms no evidence of Obama wiretap” data-reactid=”19″>Don’t miss: FBI’s Comey confirms no evidence of Obama wiretap At least nine people were pulled out from the derbis alive and taken to the nearest hospital. In 2015, a Russian-made Antonov cargo plane crashed in South Sudan shortly after taking off from the capital Juba, killing dozens of people. Does Melania Trump forgive adultery? Italy’s ‘Eastern European women’ slur” data-reactid=”22″>Most popular: Does Melania Trump forgive adultery? Italy’s ‘Eastern European women’ slur This is a breaking news story and will be updated regularly as new information and developments become available. IBTimes UK is a news organisation that keeps its global audience of 55 million monthly readers in the know with quality storytelling and analysis of…more detail

By Simon Driver, University of Western Australia Posted February 13, 2017 08:48:08 Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a deep space tracking facility at Tidbinbilla in the ACT, managed by the CSIRO, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has one in New Norcia, Western Australia. The New Norcia station plays a further role as it picks…... [read more]

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South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will host the biggest radio telescope ever built. The nations belonging to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation took the decision at a meeting on Friday. The 1.5bn-euro (£1.2bn) SKA's huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy. They will probe the early Universe, test Einstein's theory of gravity and even search for alien intelligent life. The project aims to produce a radio telescope with a combined collecting area of one million square metres - equivalent to about 200 football pitches. To do this, it…... [read more]

The former boss of government communications agency GCHQ has warned over the use of biometric data in mobile phones and devices. Sir John Adye said he had security concerns over methods like fingerprint recognition used in Apple's iPhone 6 and other devices to check identity. "I don't know what happens to my personal data when I use it on a smartphone," he told MPs. Apple has defended the security and privacy of its systems. Sir John, who headed GCHQ between 1989 and 1996, chairs a company which is developing biometric technology for identity recognition. He said the increasing use of…... [read more]

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MANILA — State weathermen showed their resentment of proponents of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s Project Noah for supposedly belittling the competence of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). The Philippine Weathermen Employees Association (PWEA), a group of PAGASA’s employees, claimed “a group cramming to save Project Noah” have undertaken a campaign to discredit the weather agency. “We view this as an apparent attempt to discredit PAGASA, only to justify the extension of Project (Noah),” PWEA president Ramon Agustin said over the weekend. Agustin singled out Project Noah executive director Mahar Lagmay for “express(ing) doubt…... [read more]

Get daily updates directly to your inbox + SubscribeThank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email A hunt for a hidden chamber in the tomb of King Tutankhamun will resume when a team of Italian researchers begin the most in-depth investigation ever of the boy king's burial site. A team from the Polytechnic University of Turin will scan the tomb and its surroundings with advanced radar technology. "It will be a rigorous scientific work and will last several days, if not weeks," Franco Porcelli, the project's director and a professor of physics at the department of applied…... [read more]